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Geoff Ryken @geoffryken.com · 09/02/2026

There’s something reassuring about Jake from State Farm having more Super Bowl presence than Harrison Butker.

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Geoff Ryken @geoffryken.com · 19/12/2025

Seriously. I'll pay $100 to be able to legally remove one of those letters.

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Geoff Ryken @geoffryken.com · 19/12/2025

He would ruin the sun just like he ruined Twitter.

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Geoff Ryken @geoffryken.com · 19/12/2025

I just got a bill for the P.A. from an ER visit in July 2024.

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Geoff Ryken @geoffryken.com · 12/11/2025

What a beautiful tribute to Cleto and his family 💙

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 07/11/2025

I understand why we shut down American airspace for a few days after 9-11 to avoid a repeat attack but imagine shutting down American airspace to avoid releasing the Epstein files.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/11/2025

photos of Trump sleeping through yesterday's Oval Office event via Andrew Harnik of Getty

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Geoff Ryken @geoffryken.com · 08/11/2025

This should be a huge controversy, but it’s lost in all the other unconstitutional goings on.

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Geoff Ryken @geoffryken.com · 05/11/2025

I’ve only barely watched the news since last November. I tuned in a bit tonight, and I still get that sick feeling in my gut even when there’s good news.

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Eric Swalwell @ericswalwell.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Who is Mini Mike fooling?

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Geoff Ryken @geoffryken.com · 24/08/2025

We all agree the new Netflix interface is awful, right?

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Denise Dewald, MD @denisedewald.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

In a study of over 100 German soldiers who refused to follow orders to kill civilians during WW2, none received the death penalty, and indeed very few suffered any serious consequence. DO NOT FOLLOW ILLEGAL ORDERS www.jstor.org/stable/1429971

Those Who Said "No!":
Germans Who Refused to Execute Civilians During WW2

David H. Kitterman
Northern Arizona University

Conventional wisdom during World War II among German soldiers,
members of the SS and SD as well as police personnel, held that any order given
by a superior officer must be obeyed under any circumstances. Failure to carry
out such an order would result in a threat to life and limb or possibly serious
danger to loved ones. Many students of Nazi history have this same view, even
to this day.
Could a German refuse to participate in the roundup and murder of
Jews, gypsies, suspected partisans, "commissars" and Soviet POWs - unarmed
groups of men, women, and children - and survive without getting himself shot
or put into a concentration camp or placing his loved ones in jeopardy?
We may never learn the full answer to this, the ultimate question for
all those placed in such a quandry, because we lack adequate documentation
in many cases to determine the full circumstances and consequences of such a
hazardous risk. There are, however, over 100 cases of individuals whose moral
scruples were weighed in the balance and not found wanting. These individuals
made the choice to refuse participation in the shooting of unarmed civilians or
POWs and none of them paid the ultimate penalty, death! Furthermore, very few
suffered any other serious consequence!
We know this because their cases and the historical circumstances

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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

This Stephen Colbert monologue from Monday night, followed by a bit about the MAGA contingent calling for Trump to release the Epstein files, is the reason why Paramount fired Colbert and canceled his show. That, and the Midterm elections are coming up, and he would continue to go after Trump.

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Geoff Ryken @geoffryken.com · 17/07/2025

Oh he's waaaay scared of details coming out.

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Geoff Ryken @geoffryken.com · 05/07/2025

This phenomenon of everyone playing make believe that they’re a hibachi chef is odd.

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Geoff Ryken @geoffryken.com · 23/06/2025

The small man really thinks he's some kind of genius about...well...everything. If it wasn't so freakishly dangerous, I'd just call it pathetic.

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Geoff Ryken @geoffryken.com · 23/06/2025

My doctor's office's appointment reminders are saying "CST." I wish they'd realize that, if I showed up based on their messages, I'd be an hour late.

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Geoff Ryken @geoffryken.com · 18/06/2025

I'm not big on dress codes, but this dude's low-cut toucan shirt is a definite choice.

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Geoff Ryken @geoffryken.com · 13/06/2025

I do wonder if Colbert put up a fight to try to get After Midnight renewed.

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Geoff Ryken @geoffryken.com · 13/06/2025

Hats off to the whole After Midnight staff and crew and Taylor Tomlinson on a great HOUR LONG show of new comedy 4 nights/week! CBS and Paramount are letting go of something good by not renewing it with a new host.

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Geoff Ryken @geoffryken.com · 12/06/2025

It’s surely helpful for investigators, but having video of every plane crash these days is not something everybody event wants to see.

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Geoff Ryken @geoffryken.com · 08/06/2025

Can we stop giving content creators access to an airplane set?

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Geoff Ryken @geoffryken.com · 06/06/2025

The Karen Read trial took a day off just so we could focus on the Trump+Elion megatantrum.

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Geoff Ryken @geoffryken.com · 05/06/2025

We all knew this is where Trump and Elon would end up.

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Geoff Ryken @geoffryken.com · 29/05/2025

Anyone else notice the accident reconstructionist guy in the Karen Read trial looks like Vince Gilligan?

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Geoff Ryken @geoffryken.com · 28/05/2025

Is the courtroom for the Karen Read trial just an old closet?

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 27/05/2025

Aside from the fact that anyone can get seriously ill from COVID, a key point they are deliberately hiding when removing access is that COVID vaccines reduce transmission. People choose to get vaccinated to protect other people. It is wrong and harmful to take that choice away.

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Geoff Ryken @geoffryken.com · 27/05/2025

I'm mixed on the finale of "The Handmaid's Tale." On a series that has been in our consciousness for 8 years, it was important to do a lot of wrap up. I hate when there is zero chance for wrap up on series (like if they ended the series after the first 15 mins of the episode).

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

But I was told Trump wasn’t old and tired.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23/05/2025

Throwback Thursday… At President Biden’s final State of the Union address, he backed the entire Republican Party into a corner, forcing them to deny that they were planning to slash Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid—just to hand billionaires a trillion-dollar tax cut. He knew!

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Geoff Ryken @geoffryken.com · 22/05/2025

Do you have to say “flirts” and “Matt Gaetz” in the same headline?

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

You can avoid it as much as you want. But this is at the root.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 19/05/2025

The House GOP last night approved Medicaid cuts that will kick millions off insurance & shrink after-tax income for many families in the bottom income quintile Hard to fathom how unpopular this is. Just 14% of voters wants to cut Medicaid to pay for tax cuts www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-a...